Adjustable landside



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS F. IVAKEMAN, OF SI-IREVEPORT, LOUISIANA.

AIDJUSTABLE LAN DSlDE.

fiPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,216, dated April28, 1891.

Application filed July 23, 1890. $erial No. 359,706. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, LEwIs FARRINGTON \VAKEMAN,-a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Shreveport, in the parish of Oaddo and State ofLouisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Adjustable Landside for Georgia Iron or \Vooden Foot-Stocks; and I dodeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in an adjustable landside for aplow, and its novelty will be fully understood from the followingdescription, when taken in connection with the annexed drawings; and theobjects of my invention are to place upon an ordinary plow, such as areused in the uplands, an attachment that will regulate the depth of cutand which will enable a plow to run steadier. I attain these objects bythe mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure1 is a perspective side view. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of theadjustable slide. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the adjustable slidewith mold-board attached. Fig. 4 is a front View.

Similar letters refer to similarparts through-' out the several views.

In the drawings, A shows my adjustable landside of plow, and to whichthere is attached a slide in which there is a slot, as shown by B.Through this slotI insert aheelbolt, which is passed first through amoldboard, as shown by D, and the head of bolt, as designated by E, isshown in Figs. 1, 3, and at, G indicating a nut, which is adjusted onend of heel-bolt to hold same in position.

F is an iron foot which is attached to beam K of an ordinary Georgiaplow-stock.

H is a grass-rod.

G is a piece of metal attached to landside of plow; but where desiredthe landside may be cast in one piece. The mold-board D (shown forattaching to slide) is anvordinary turning-shovel such as is used insandy soil or upland.

The mode of operation is the same as in an ordinary wooden or ironGeorgia foot-stock plow, with this exception, that by means of myinvention a plow may be attached to the landside by placing a boltthrough the slot in slide B and mold-board D. hen it is desired to raisethe mold-board D, simply loosen the nut G on heel-bolt, slip the boltand moldboard upward upon the incline or slide in which slot B issituated, and when at a proper height tighten up the nut G, and in thismannera mold-board can be raised or lowered upon the iron foot F, so asto enable it to cut any depth desired or enable a plow as it wears atthe point to be used for a much longer period by simply raising the plowupon the slide.

A striking advantage of my invention is that it enables a plow to runsteady and lighter, and at same time regulates the depth desired to plowand enabling a boy to use same with ease.

I am aware that it is old in plows to provide a mold-board adjustableupon a stock formed of two parallel bars secured together, so as to forma longitudinal open space between them and to provide a heel-bolt forthe attachment of said board to the stock; and I am also aware that itis old to provide an ordinary stock with openings at intervals adjacentto its lower end to receive a heelbolt for the attachment of a slottedmoldboard and interposed wedge, and I therefore make no'claim to suchdevices.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

In a plow substantially as described, the combination, with a footconsisting of two parallel bars bolted together so as to form an adjusting-space between them for a heel-bolt, of the landside having anintegral front upr ght extension slotted as at B, the moldboard D,provided with an aperture adjacent to its upper side to receive aheel-bolt, and the said heel-bolt adapted to take through the mold-boardand upright extension of the landside between the parallel bars of theshoe, whereby the mold-board may be adjusted vertically, all adapted tooperate substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEWVIS F. W'AKEMAN.

Witnesses:

HELMUTH IIOLTZ, PERCY D. PARKS.

